Notes on Surgical Pathology in the Dog. 



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RIBS CUT 

 AND RETRACTED 



Diagram Showing Hernial Opening in Diaphragm and Pericardium 



THROUGH WHICH PROTRUDED OMENTUM, LlVER, AND GALL-BLADDER. The right 



heart was deeply grooved by the liver lobes'which had compressed it during growth. 



2 3 

 Muscle Thinned Out, Leaving Delicate Edge of Tissue Forming Part 

 of Border of Hernial Opening in Diaphragm. Microscopical findings of remain- 

 ing border: "Edge of diaphragmatic opening appears well rounded and is covered 

 by endothelium, evidently a congenital defect." 



Calculi from Kidneys and Ureter of Dog with Transplanted Ureter: 

 (1) From right pelvis. (2) From left pelvis. (3) From right ureter. (J^ actual size.) 



has been made to reduce the inevitable resistance at the point of 

 anastomosis to within the physiological limit for the necessarily 

 impaired ureter. When this resistance is too great the first 

 evidence of physiological strain appears as a dilatation of the 

 cephalad ureter. This dilatation has been noted at varying dis- 



